Baby Duck and the New Eyeglasses
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This issue’s cover is from The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Poetry (cover illustration by Peter Weevers). Edited by Alison Sage (who also edited The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Literature), this sumptuous anthology is loosely divided into four sections corresponding to age starting with nursery rhymes and first poems through to poems for older children and classic poetry. Poems from such modern poets as Roger McGough, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope and Maya Angelou sit alongside poems by Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley and Shakespeare. The anthology is illustrated in full colour and black and white. Newly commissioned illustrations from, for example, Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes and Nicola Bayley are included alongside illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, Jessie Willcox Smith and Kate Greenaway. With such a comprehensive range of poems for 2-11 year olds and upwards, this is a wonderful family book.
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Baby Duck and the New Eyeglasses
Illustrated by Jill Barton
Baby Duck has been a favourite with many in our school since her debut in In the Rain with Baby Duck followed by You're the Boss, Baby Duck! so it came as no surprise that this book was greeted rapturously by her fans. However it is good to see that this is not just another sequel but that the author and illustrator have used this popular character to good effect with a story that will help children with glasses feel that wearing glasses is not only OK but a good thing! This book arrived at just the right time for a four-year-old neighbour and never made it into school so we had to get another copy. This too has been much chosen, rarely staying on the library shelves, so a further secret copy is now safe at hand for those children who need it!
